Up and running

It was 12 years in coming, the Little Rock Technology Park.
It was 12 years in coming, the Little Rock Technology Park, first conjured by the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce's Biotechnology Task Force in 2005. Since the park's March opening, it's attracted 29 tenants to its renovated, and now connected, buildings at 415 and 417 Main streets (now under one address, 417 Main).
Only three spaces are free on the two "turnkey floors" of the six-story main building, formerly known as the annex to the Exchange Building at 421 Main St. Tenants on those floors are leasing space on a short-term basis, from one month to a year, at below-market rates, an arrangement suited to startup businesses and one that Little...